VANCOUVER, Canada (JTA) — A city councilor in North Vancouver apologized for saying at a meeting that the city was being “Jewed down.” Rod Clark apologized Tuesday on CTV after using the slur a night earlier during a council debate on tax revenue. “Unfortunately it was a very big mistake, I can’t take it back,…

VANCOUVER, Canada (JTA) — Jewish refugees from Arab countries have been ignored by the Western world, the Canadian Parliament was told in its first-ever hearings on the issue. “The expulsion of nearly 1 million Jews from nine Arab countries has had no political consequences,” Gina Waldman, president of JIMENA, a nonprofit group dedicated to the preservation…

VANCOUVER, Canada (JTA) — Jewish refugees from Arab countries have been ignored by the Western world, the Canadian Parliament was told in its first-ever hearings on the issue. “The expulsion of nearly 1 million Jews from nine Arab countries has had no political consequences,” Gina Waldman, president of JIMENA, a nonprofit group dedicated to the preservation…

VANCOUVER, Canada (JTA) — A Winnipeg teenager was convicted on charges of assault with a weapon in a racially motivated attack on a Jewish student. The 17-year-old attacker, a high school student whose anonymity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, pleaded guilty in court on Tuesday and will be sentenced June 27, the…